Paper holder and display rack



Dec. 13, 1927. 1,652,411

2. s; RANDLEMAN PAPER HOLDER AND DISPLAY RACK Filed Jan. 21. 1925 filyemor' Patented Dec. 13, 1927 PATE [NEH- zoimvn s. RANDLEMAlMbF CARLISLE, Iowa, Assrenon or onn- -ranrro ALBERT B."

RANLDLEMAN, or OARLISLE, IOWA. I

'rnrnn- HOLDER nn nrsPLAY RACK; f I

, Application filed January 21,.1925.- Serial No.8;336. Y I I,

Theobject ,Qifill'ly invention. pro-:- vide a simple, durable and inexpensive paper holder and display rack, which isso' constructed and arranged. that. newspapers, 5 magazines and the like may be quickly and easi -l applied, and when soapplied willbe firm y. snpportedxin position and. yet.- adapt-c ed to be readily. removed.

More-specifically it is the obj-ect of inven'tionto provide a paper holder or display rack having a number of yieldable supporting members which provide means for supporting aseries of papers or magazines independently, all of the sald independent supporting means being adapted to impart a gripping action to. the papers supported.

- therein by. means of. a. single operating spring. 1 l .A further object istoprovide a paper Willcstand alone in Jan upright position. -My .invent1onconsistsin ;the construction,

arrangemen-t ..and combination of the various parts-of the device, whereby the-objects con- .teinp1ated-.are attained, as hereinafter more, fully set fortln'pointed outinuny claims, and

accompanying drawings, c

3 I I l .endpivotally connected with the loops 20,. said yoke lying adjacent to the outer-face.

"illustrated in the in-whi'chz; I 'F'gure: 1" is aside elevation of may ire proveddevice as ,used as. a display stand.

Figure 2-is an end elevation of the same-x Figure -3 is an end ,eleyation of a form adapted to be placedon a wall Figure 4' isaan end elevationoff a slightly modified form of my device. I

My'd-evice comprises a supporting member 10 having an enlarged portion 11 at its lower end, saidenlarged portion being provided with a cross member 12, said member 12 serving .to provide a support to prevent the member 10 from rocking laterally when in an upright'position.

I have provided two of the members 10 ble member 13, so that the members 12 may be spaced apart a considerable distance in such a manner as to place the upright members 10 in oppositely inclined positions, so that the said upright members will stand upright. A flexible chain 14 is connected to I one of the members 10 by means of an eye of a hook 16. The said chain serves to preholder or. displayirackwhiehis adapted toy I fold into a compact form and .also capableof being nnfoldedto such position that it.

having their upper ends connected by a fleXi- 1 let 15 and to the opposite member by means gripping member. 18,; saidmem ber. 18-1-be'ing formed of wire having .itstree ends provided with loops 19 toreceivethevsaid screws l7; A second loop20 is formed in .each of the sidei'membersf of the gripper: 18 a slight dis tance abovethe loop 19.: The upperror enclosed portion of the member 18-is provided withan outwardly bentportionQl-L. Connected to the loops20 of the member .18 is a similargripping member z22 which.

is alsoprovided'with loops. 23' designed to.

enter'theloopsQO of the member-18, the 1 I I i 8 member 22 being otherwise. similar toj the member 18. Any number of the grippers i 22 may be provided, and they, are connected together'so .thatz the loops 20. he inia plane l V paralleL- with thebody portion 10, while the lie substantially parallel to 'eachother and in substantially vertical planes when the members 101areset in theusaid inclined position...

The top oneof the grippers '22 is pro.-

I side members ofqeach er the. grippers 22.

vided'with a yoke-2 1 whichha's its lower,

otthebody 10 and extendingfupwardly and being connected to aspring 25,:the upper endof which is. placed over an-upwardly andyoutwardly extending hook26, said hook being for; the purpose of receiving ,and. re-

taining bills and the like.

A horizontally arranged spring 27 is placed immediately the grippers may be moved outwardly from its adjacent gripper, which outward movement will have a tendency to increase the tension on the spring 25.. I

"By this construction, papers or paper.

sacks, envelopes, etc., may be placed between two of the gripping members and retained in saidposition by the gripping action im parted by the spring 25. It will be seen that llu one of any number of these gripping memhere may be used, the spring 25 adapting itself to take care of the tension of all. of them.

In Figure 3 I have shown the gripping members mounted on a single supporting board which ma be rigidly secured to a wall if so desire while the form shown in Figure 1 is adapted to be placed on the 'round or floor surface, and constitutes a isplay rack or stand which is very convenient to be used in connection with the sale of newspapers, magazines and the like, as the stand may be easily and quickly removed by simply unhooking the chain 1 L from the hook 16 and then placing the yieldable member 13 over the o erators shoulder, making the device porta'le without removing the magazines from the stand.

fil Figure 4 I have shown a slightly modified form which consists of a. base 28 having a series of wooden strips 29 pivoted to each other by means of hinges 30, the lower one of said strips being pivoted to the lower end of the base28, while the upper one of said strips 29 is hinged to a slide bar 31, the upper end of which is provided with a draw spring 32; The action of this device is similar to the one above described.

By this arrangement it will be seen that I have provided a display rack and paper holder of simple, durable and inexpensive construction, which is adapted to receive a large variety ofdiil'erent shapes and sizes of papers and magazines, which may be sup portedin independent groups, each of the groups being yieldably supported in position by means of a single sprin and which is readily adapted as a portablb newspaper stand. p i a a a I claim as my invention:

1. A support comprising a bar having an enlarged portionat one end, a series of gripping members, each formed substantially of a U-shaped piece of wire, each of the parallel members of said wire having a loop, said bets, each formed of snbstantia gripping members pivotally connected to the loop portions of the first "ripping member, a yoke pivotal'ly connected tions of the last one of said gripping mem bers, and a contractile spring having one to the loop porend connected to said yoke and its opposite end connected to said bar.

52. A support, a series of grilppin ly U-shaped piece of wire, each of the parallel members of said wire having a loop between its closed )Ol'tlOIl and its free end, said gripping mom ers being mounted in a partial overlapping position with the free ends of tone of said gripping members pivotally connected to thecorresponding loops of an adjacent gripping member, the first one of said gripping members having its free endspivoted to said support, a yoke pivotally connecting the loop portion of the last one of said gripping members, and a contractile springhaving one end connected to said yoke and its op-' posite end connected to said support.

3. A vertical support, a series of gripping members arranged in partially overlapping positions with their lower ends adjacentto said support and their body portions inclined upwardly and outwardly, the lower one of said gripping members having its lower edge pivotally connected to said support, the loweredge of each of the other gripping members being pivotally connected it to the gripping member eneath it and to a point between its upper and lower ends, and

yield-able means having one end connected to the upper one of said gripping members and its opposite end connected to said support. a a

Des Moines, Iowa, J anuary 12, 1925.

ZOUAVE s. RANDLEMAN.

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